Standard Lemma guide

casserole

noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • /ˈkæs.əˌɹoʊl/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: K AE1 S ER0 OW2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • a chicken casserole

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any type of food that fills the high-walled dish or pan in which it was cooked.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dish

Narrower terms: cocotte

6

noun

Meaning 6

food cooked and served in a casserole

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dish

Narrower terms: chicken casserole

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French casserole.

Across languages

Translations

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: кастру́ля (kastrúlja) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Central Bikol: kaserola — glass or earthenware dish
  • Bulgarian: касеро́ла (kaseróla) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Bulgarian: те́нджера (téndžera) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Catalan: casserola — glass or earthenware dish
  • Catalan: putxero — glass or earthenware dish
  • Catalan: olla — glass or earthenware dish
  • Catalan: cassola — glass or earthenware dish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 砂鍋 /砂锅 (shāguō) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Czech: kastrol — glass or earthenware dish
  • Danish: kasserolle — glass or earthenware dish
  • Dutch: ovenschotel — glass or earthenware dish
  • Esperanto: kaserolo — glass or earthenware dish
  • Finnish: vuoka — glass or earthenware dish
  • Finnish: uunivuoka — glass or earthenware dish
  • French: cocotte — glass or earthenware dish
  • French: casserole — glass or earthenware dish
  • Galician: cazola — glass or earthenware dish
  • Galician: tarteira — glass or earthenware dish
  • Georgian: პატარა ქვაბი (ṗaṭara kvabi) — glass or earthenware dish
  • German: Auflaufform — glass or earthenware dish
  • German: Kasserolle — glass or earthenware dish
  • Greek: κατσαρόλα (katsaróla) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Hebrew: אִלְפָּס (ilpás) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Hungarian: lábos — glass or earthenware dish
  • Hungarian: lábas — glass or earthenware dish
  • Ido: kasrolo — glass or earthenware dish
  • Italian: casseruola — glass or earthenware dish
  • Japanese: キャセロール (kyaserōru) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Korean: 캐서롤 (kaeseorol) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Macedonian: тепсија (tepsija) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Norman: chanmeau — glass or earthenware dish
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kasserolle — glass or earthenware dish
  • Polish: naczynie żaroodporne — glass or earthenware dish
  • Polish: brytfanna — glass or earthenware dish
  • Polish: gęsiarka — glass or earthenware dish
  • Portuguese: caçarola — glass or earthenware dish
  • Portuguese: caçoila — glass or earthenware dish
  • Portuguese: caçoula — glass or earthenware dish
  • Romanian: caserolă — glass or earthenware dish
  • Russian: кастрю́ля (kastrjúlja) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Sicilian: cazzalora — glass or earthenware dish
  • Sicilian: tiganu — glass or earthenware dish
  • Slovak: kastról — glass or earthenware dish
  • Spanish: cacerola — glass or earthenware dish
  • Swedish: gryta — glass or earthenware dish
  • Swedish: lergryta — glass or earthenware dish
  • Swedish: kastrull — glass or earthenware dish
  • Tagalog: kaserola — glass or earthenware dish
  • Ottoman Turkish: كوكج (güvec) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Ukrainian: кастру́ля (kastrúlja) — glass or earthenware dish
  • Belarusian: запяка́нка (zapjakánka) — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Central Bikol: kaserola — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Catalan: olla — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Catalan: putxero — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Chinese Cantonese: 砂鍋 /砂锅 (saa1 wo1) — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 法國砂鍋 /法国砂锅 (Fàguó shāguō) — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 法國烤鍋 /法国烤锅 (Fàguó kǎoguō) — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Dutch: ovenschotel — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Finnish: laatikko — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Finnish: pataruoka — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • French: timbale — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Galician: caldeirada — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • German: Auflauf — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Greek: φαγητό κατσαρόλας (fagitó katsarólas) — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Hungarian: rakottas — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Italian: pasta al forno — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Japanese: 蒸し焼き (mushi-yaki) — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Japanese: キャセロール (kyaserōru) — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Polish: zapiekanka — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Russian: запека́нка (zapekánka) — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Sicilian: manciari ô furnu — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Spanish: cazuela — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Spanish: cazolada — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Spanish: a la cacerola — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Swedish: gryta — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Tagalog: kaserola — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Ukrainian: запіка́нка (zapikánka) — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Yup'ik: salkuuyaq — food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish
  • Chinese Cantonese: 燜 /焖 (mun1) — to cook as a casserole i.e. in a closed dish
  • Māori: tūkohu — to cook as a casserole i.e. in a closed dish
  • Polish: dusić — to cook as a casserole i.e. in a closed dish
Real reading context

casserole in complete knowledge articles